School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- 1. What is full and holds more.
Ans. A pot full of potatoes when you pour in water.
2. What walks with its head down.
Ans. A nail in a mans boot.
3. In a garden they laid a beautiful maid as fresh and as fair as the morning. The first day of her life she becomes a mans wife and she died before she was born.
Ans. Eve in the garden of Paradise.
4. London, Derry, Cork and Kerry, spell me that without a K.
Ans. That.
5. under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
Ans. A cake in the over when it is baking.
6. If 2 1/2 yds of cloth would make a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridget Fordham
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Fordham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway